Finance Risk & Controls Consultant - General

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh / London / Birmingham, with normally a minimum of 2 days a week working in the office and the rest working at home. We believe that benefits both you and our business, helping ensure that you can balance a successful career with your life outside of work while maximising the value of face-to-face stakeholder engagement.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date: Tuesday 20th January

Salary and benefits: £45,000 - £60,000 plus an indicative bonus range of 16%-32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re Phoenix Group, we’re a long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

As an Risk & Controls Consultant - General  you’ll play a key role in supporting the oversight and continuous improvement of the risk and control environment across Finance with a specific focus on general or non-financial risk related controls.

Working across Finance processes and teams, you will help maintain a high-quality control framework by supporting Senior Managers and Risk & Control Leads in executing their duties. This includes performing assurance and control testing on general controls, assisting with documentation, and embedding the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Internal Controls Framework (ICF). You will also contribute to action plan management, support the preparation of meeting packs for governance forums, and help monitor the effectiveness of general controls to ensure timely remediation of issues.

Acting as a flexible resource across Finance, you will provide support where demand is highest, offering exposure to a wide range of Finance activities and the opportunity to build technical and soft skills while making a tangible impact on how Finance manages risk and controls.

What are we looking for?

• Experience in risk, audit, or controls roles.
• Strong analytical and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Good communication skills, able to explain control concepts clearly and work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Collaborative and flexible approach, with confidence to work across different teams and support a variety of projects.
• Proactive mindset, with willingness to learn, take ownership, and contribute to continuous improvement of the risk and control environment.
• Familiarity with RMF and ICF desirable but not essential.
• Desire to develop a career in risk and controls, with opportunities to grow into more senior or specialist roles over time.

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Please note that we reserve the right to remove adverts earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.

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